Muslim-American groups are supporting a Fatwa (religious ruling) claiming that body scanning at airports violates Islamic law. This is ironic! Let’s face the truth: America is fighting a war against extremist Muslims. Body scanning may be sinful to the point of view of Muslims, but it also violates the privacy of Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc.
The United States is [...]

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The President of the United States, Barack Obama, like the chief of a village, is taking responsibility himself for the failure of the agencies that should have stopped the 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Northwest Airlines Flight 253 despite numerous warning signs. The agencies failed to stop Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber” and [...]

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Richard and Mayumi Heene, the “balloon boy” parents, got jail time and 4 years probation. The judge also prohibited them from receiving any form of financial benefit, whether through the media, a book, or articles they might write about the balloon hoax.
Their story made headlines all around the world. Obsession for fame and greed can [...]

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Not having been born in America, I always wonder how the American people have given so much power to the insurance companies to the point even doctors are hostages of them.
Money has succeeded for years in buying the political consciences to not make changes in the direction of helping their people. What type of people [...]

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President Obama has been criticized for using the word “stupidity” after the arrest of the well-known Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates,Jr. His comment lit up the controversy that is overshadowing an important matter dear to the president: health care reform.
It is difficult to say if the president reacted as a black man or as a [...]

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Politics and religion are like salt and water. When you mix them up, it makes a salty water which is not necessarily a healthy solution.
A total of 44 people have been taken into custody in New Jersey and New York, as a result of a two-year FBI and IRS probe stretching from the Jersey Shore [...]

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Prosecutors dropped a disorderly conduct charge Tuesday against prominent Black Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested after forcing his way into his own house. Mr. Gates is director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
On the one hand, it is a good thing that this happened. It [...]

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Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice doctor who works with the rural poor in Alabama, is his choice for Surgeon General, President Obama said Monday.
Definitely, women are rising in positions of power in America. It is a good thing. Even though the gap is still there between men and women, women has come very far, [...]

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The nomination of judge Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice is certainly the news of the moment. I have been reading about her life and am very inspired by it. From where she was to where she is today, I have say it is a great achievement. She has been nominated not because she is [...]

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The town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, just elected a man of color as mayor for the first time in its history. For those who are not familiar with this city, the town is best known for the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964: James Chaney, Andrew [...]

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